In a speech in Macclesfield today, Mrs May is to outline plans that will prevent 22,000 cancer deaths every year by 2033 through the deployment of advanced technologies extracting knowledge from NHS data, cross-referencing patients' habits and genetics. "Late diagnosis of otherwise treatable illnesses is one of the biggest causes of avoidable deaths. "And the development of smart technologies to analyse great quantities of data quickly and with a higher degree of accuracy than is possible by human beings opens up a whole new field of medical research and gives us a new weapon in our armoury in the fight against disease." This will create a new industry offering high-skilled science jobs, drawing on'existing centres of excellence' such as Oxford or Leeds, Mrs May will pledge.

Many women use dating apps like Tinder and Bumble to confirm their attractiveness rather than find a partner. New research into our swiping habits habits has found that men swipe with an eye for casual sex while girls prefer to use dating apps for an ego boost. This is because women get a kick out of being perceived as a potential partner by other users, scientists said. 'Women use dating apps to feel better about themselves more than men do,' said study coauthor Dr Mons Bendixen, from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Lead author Ernst Olav Botnen added: 'Men tend to report a desire for casual sex and short-term relationships as a reason for using dating apps.

The UK government wants to use artificial intelligence to spot signs of disease earlier. In a speech today, prime minister Theresa May said that AI could help to stop 22,000 cancer deaths a year by 2033. The technology could also be used for other conditions, such as heart disease. The plan is to develop AI systems that can scan data about patients' habits and genetics, and then cross-reference the country's health records to spot people at an early stage of disease.

EVERY DAY AROUND 10m people take an Uber. The company has made ride-hailing commonplace in more than 600 cities in 82 countries. But the Volvo XC90 picking its way through traffic on a wintry morning in Pittsburgh is no ordinary Uber. Climb into the back, and you will see a screen mounted between the front seats, showing a digital representation of the world around the car, with other vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists highlighted as clusters of blue dots. Tap the screen to say you are ready to leave, and the car starts to move.

Artificial intelligence will be used to help stop 22,000 cancer deaths a year by 2033, Theresa May will say in a speech setting out how science can transform health. Medical records, along with information about patients' habits and genetics, will be cross-referenced with national data to spot those at an early stage of cancer. The Prime Minister will also pledge to help people remain healthier for an extra five years. Speaking in Macclesfield, Cheshire, Mrs May will say: "Late diagnosis of otherwise treatable illnesses is one of the biggest causes of avoidable deaths. "And the development of smart technologies to analyse great quantities of data quickly and with a higher degree of accuracy than is possible by human beings opens up a whole new field of medical research and gives us a new weapon in our armoury in the fight against disease.

A spray-panting robot named'Albert' has created a massive mural featuring Soviet-era musician Jaak Joala in the Estonian city of Narva.

One of the country's biggest hospitals has unveiled sweeping plans to use artificial intelligence to carry out tasks traditionally performed by doctors and nurses, from diagnosing cancer on CT scans to deciding which A&E patients are seen first. The three-year partnership between University College London Hospitals (UCLH) and the Alan Turing Institute aims to bring the benefits of the machine learning revolution to the NHS on an unprecedented scale. Prof Bryan Williams, director of research at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said that the move could have a major impact on patient outcomes, drawing parallels with the transformation of the consumer experience by companies such as Amazon and Google. "It's going to be a game-changer," he said. "You can go on your phone and book an airline ticket, decide what movies you're going to watch or order a pizza … it's all about AI," he said.

This story was originally posted by Digital Trends. Whether it's beating us at games like the board game Go or stealing our jobs, the killer combination of artificial intelligence and robots are owning us puny humans left and right. The latest example of a high-tech achievement that will make you feel on the verge of extinction? A robot that's capable of completing a Rubik's Cube puzzle in just 0.38 seconds flat -- which includes image capture and computation time, along with physically moving the cube. Not only is that significantly faster than the human world record of 4.59 seconds, but it's also a big improvement on the official robot world record of 0.637 seconds, as set in late 2016.

The Pioneers'18 conference happening this week in Vienna, Austria, is focused on early-stage startups and investing. The startup conference season is now officially opened in Europe with some of the continent's largest entrepreneurship events happening this month of May, like The Next Web (TNW) in Amsterdam, Vivatech in Paris, France, Infoshare in Poland or Latitude 59 and Arctic 15, in Estonia and Finland respectively, for startups in the Nordics region. However, Pioneers'18, formerly the Pioneers Festival which is happening this week in Vienna, Austria, is quite unique with its maniacal focus on early-stage startups and investing and emerging and future technology themes (space, artificial intelligence, robotics, virtual reality, science…). "Over the years, Austria has emerged as an early-stage startup hub," told me ahead of the event Oliver Csendes, the CEO of Pioneers. "And this year, we've handpicked 550 early-stage startups, from all over the world, to attend the event and pitch hundreds of investors, corporations, public sector representatives and media."

We've today backed a challenge from the Prime Minister, Theresa May, to make the UK a world leader in the use of data and artificial intelligence to help transform the diagnosis and treatment of chronic diseases in the UK. Speaking in Macclesfield, the Prime Minister challenged the NHS, leading health charities and industry to accelerate progress in using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to quicken the diagnosis of conditions including heart and circulatory disease, cancer and dementia. The speech supports the Government's Industrial Strategy, which includes four Grand Challenges to put the UK at the forefront of future technologies and industries. This includes growing the artificial intelligence and data driven economy and managing an ageing society. Data science is the use of maths, statistics and computer science to get answers from large, complex data sets, while AI is the use of computer algorithms to draw conclusions from this type of data without direct human input.